Did I mention I have a detachable package?

So.. Anyone brave enough to stand up and freely admit that they secretly opened my package against my will and have stolen the contents of which I have a ransom card here that says that if I dare see my package intact once again that I must go seek the great tutu and give it to them in exchange, or else I shall be doomed to a empty package for the rest of my ill fated and perilous no package life?

Unabridged

Banned Books Week Sept. 24-Oct. 1 2004

List of the some of the most challenged or banned books:

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

For what basis should they be or have been banned? There are quite a few that were rather good if not great and I see no reason other than perhaps a reason of "This book is contrary to my beliefs and essentially has a great story and must be banned because cannot provocative or otherwise have a great storyline". One cannot ban knowledge, they can only suppress it. Sooner or later it will surface and I'm continually hoping for the former.

Alot were challenged or banned because of content. "Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret" by Judy Blume mentions menstruation. The Harry Potter series is about a boy who happens to be wizard, and we all know that being a witch of wizard means being akin to Satan (what a piece of malarky).

I so agree with you, that's why Banned Books Week is so important to me.

Every single parent that is against Harry Potter I can bet you $1 million that they let their kids watch and read the Lord of the Rings and the Wizard of Oz. Freakin hypocrits.

Does the fact that i've read over half of them damn me? Or is it the cause of my evident stupidity?

My gosh I have read a lot of those books I do no like for
any body to ban a book.

Umm, I am afraid ignorance blinds me but what in the world could they find wrong with a boy being a wizard? I love that story, they might as well ban Lord Of The Rings because Frodo is a hobbit with big feet, or any fantasy based story. Plus is menstruation really that taboo? Women have been dealing with this since the dawn of humanity, so umm.. I finally say; 'What the heck?'

If the head of so called family did not supply such information then where are they to get said information? Even if they did, is it not possible what they say is biased? This is so crazy, as if what they believe is so fragile that if another source of knowledge shows up it must be bad or otherwise it may harm their belief.

It is matter of the definition of Original Sin. Is it disobedience or sex.
They seem to opt for sex

And thus are oppressed?

Maybe the head of the family should have a little control over what the children are reading and watching. I don't think we need to ban the books from everyone just for the sake of a few nitpicky, overly controlling "Christian" parents.

I agree, But, they do not. Which, IMHO is the source of current conservative Republican ideology